Fortinet, Inc.

Fortinet, Inc. is a global cybersecurity company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It develops and supplies high-performance security products and services spanning firewalls, AI-powered security, secure networking, cloud security and unified SASE, intended to protect organisations' digital attack surfaces. The company employs more than 10,000 people worldwide and serves over 660,000 customers.

Fortinet's product line began with FortiGate, its first physical firewall, which became the cornerstone of the portfolio and evolved into a broader cybersecurity platform. The Fortinet Security Fabric extends coverage across the digital attack surface, from devices and data to applications and data centres.

The company was founded by brothers Ken and Michael Xie. Its stated mission is to protect people, devices and data everywhere, and to make possible a digital world that can always be trusted. A recurring design principle is comprehensive protection delivered without sacrificing performance, with no trade-off between speed and security. Work on AI-powered security reflects an emphasis on innovation within the engineering organisation.